Nov 28, 2009

Installing WordPress on a Mac

I’ve always been a fan of working locally on my computer. For a while, I used to work remotely but I didn’t like it as much because there’s the whole uploading time that you have to take (and no, it doesn’t take long but still). Here is an outline to installing workpress on a Mac simply and easily.

1. Download MAMP. It is basically a package to get Mysql, Apache server, and PHP all on your Mac.
2. Install MAMP – the installation is pretty straight forward.
3. Download WordPress
4. Install WordPress – put the wordpress folder into the htdocs folder which was created in your MAMP installation folder.

You need to use PHPmyAdmin to create the database for WordPress. If you’re not going public on your computer, it’s okay to keep the default username and password. However, if you ARE going public, you should probably take precautions and change it.